links for 2010-04-22

The Like button enables users to make connections to your pages and share content back to their friends on Facebook with one click. Since the content is hosted by Facebook, the button can display personalized content whether or not the user has logged into your site. For logged-in Facebook users, the button is personalized to highlight friends who have also liked the page.

Throughout the election campaign I've been keeping up a digital election timeline, making a note of interesting bits of campaigning on the web by the parties, digital coverage by the media, and the odd bit of mischief from the collective hive mind of 'teh interwebz'.

Scouting in the UK has seen its largest membership growth in 38 years. Nowhere has this been more in evidence than in the Western Isles of Scotland. Over the past year they’ve managed to almost double their membership, making it one of Scouting’s fastest growing regions.